HBO: Present, Past, and Future TRAILER

Origins with James Andrew Miller

Audacy Podcasts

Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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After spending more than three years working on his latest book, “Tinderbox: HBO’s Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers,” replete with 757 interviews, Origins host Jim Miller decided he hadn’t had enough, and has returned with new interviews to further explore one of the world’s most iconic premium content brands. He now presents the newest chapter of Origins titled: “HBO – PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE,” - a look inside HBO - where he dissects its beginnings, its programming pedigree, and its complicated road ahead. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Business decisions, those does not cause me a lot of anxiety.
0:07.9	Creative decisions, subjective decisions, it's your taste that's out there on display.
0:15.9	Hi, this is Jim Miller and welcome back to Argeons.
0:26.2	Our new chapter is a look inside one of the most iconic media brands of the past 50 years.
0:32.1	HBO.
0:34.1	It's a balance between instinct and information.
0:37.2	It's an environment that ends up cultivating a family dynamic.
0:40.5	It was really kind of a remarkable moment that everybody came back without
0:43.4	renegotiating the contract.
0:44.6	You're conscious of trying to do better, top yourself.
0:48.4	We were all rooted in one goal which was to help make this succeed.
0:51.7	You know, we were able to really mold a crew that came ready every day.
0:56.1	This is Argeons.
0:57.9	Chapter 7, HBO.
1:00.4	Present, past and future.
1:05.0	You'll hear from key figures who make and made the decisions about what you watch on HBO
1:10.1	and what it's like to actually have one of those jobs.
1:12.9	There's some real son of bitches out there that not only don't care if they're not like
1:16.6	actually life, inflicting some kind of pain on other people, why be such a piece of shit as that?
1:23.4	You'll also hear from those who sit or sat at the highest levels of the company.
1:28.0	We made a lot of noise and we didn't have that much money.
1:30.8	So we had to figure out creative ways to break through the noise of popular culture.
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